Word: columnistic
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...members bid for underwriting business, although today they do so from a four-story-high, block-square trading room in London. These underwriters form syndicates that are in turn backed by Names--investors who range from British notable Camilla Parker Bowles to U.S. business tycoons like Lufkin and Schwab, columnist Robert Novak, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and smaller fry like Evans. Names are required to risk their entire personal wealth when they back Lloyd's policies in exchange for the right to a slice of underwriting profits. Atop the whole shebang sits the Council of Lloyd's, a ruling...
...What the ultimate fallout will be is still unclear; there's talk of a civil suit or federal action. But, says TIME columnist Jack White, two people will pay dearly for this verdict. "Rudy Giuliani and Bronx district attorney Robert T. Johnson are going to catch hell for this," says White. "Johnson screwed up this case so badly he'll never be elected again." Many Diallo supporters contend that Johnson's office was ill-prepared to handle this case. Giuliani, whose presumptive campaign for the U.S. Senate could hinge on the crucial New York City vote, was on television moments...
Several writers played with the idea of what life online and off-line would look like. TIME contributor Robert Wright explains why we will never log off again, while FORTUNE columnist Stanley Bing does a hilarious send-up of what will happen to today's couch potatoes. (Hint: think mashed.) David Gelernter, professor of computer science at Yale, argues that despite the way our lives are being turned into data streams, we will have as much privacy as we need. Novelist Mark Leyner predicts, tongue slightly in cheek, that no longer will we have to go to sporting events...
This bodice-ripping encounter starring a Founding Father and a femme fatale may or may not be faithful to history, but it is definitely a reliable narrative device. Safire, the snappy, right-hooking political columnist for the New York Times, can always be counted on to keep his readers informed while also in a state of high expectation...
...ever anxious to keep the contest alive, are quick to point out, while the support of the religious right was a wonderful tool for Bush in South Carolina, in more moderate states it may prove to be something of a monkey on the governor's back. As TIME political columnist Margaret Carlson told CNN on Saturday night, "Bush has painted himself into a corner in the past couple of weeks. He's now a self-styled bedrock conservative who could be President of South Carolina...